Si se roció una de las sangres para él y se volvió impuro, R. Eliezer dice: Él compensa todo. [No todos los días (del naziritismo), sino todas las ofrendas. R. Eliezer es consistente con su punto de vista de que no se le permite al nazareo beber vino hasta todos los (actos antes mencionados), después de traer todas las ofrendas. De modo que cuando se volvió impuro antes de ofrecerlos a todos, es como si se volviera impuro por la mañana, antes de haber ofrecido ninguno de ellos. Y se considera que la ofrenda que trajo fue presentada antes del "cumplimiento" (de su naziritismo).] Y los sabios dicen: Él puede traer las otras ofrendas y volverse limpio. [(Es decir, cuando se vuelve limpio). Y no necesita traer de nuevo la ofrenda que trajo cuando estaba limpio. Los rabinos son consistentes con su punto de vista (6: 9) de que después de un solo acto se le permite beber vino y afeitarse. Por lo tanto, antes de volverse impuro, estaba en condiciones de afeitarse, y esa ofrenda no se compensa. Pero las otras ofrendas, que él sacrificó después de volverse impuro, son ciertamente compensadas, las Escrituras requieren que todas las ofrendas nazareas sean traídas en limpieza.] Le dijeron. Sucedió con Miriam la Tarmodith [(de Tarmod)] que una de las sangres había sido rociada por ella y vinieron y le dijeron que su hija estaba gravemente enferma.—entonces ella fue y descubrió que había muerto. Y los sabios dijeron: "Que traiga las otras ofrendas y se vuelva limpio".
Bartenura on Mishnah Nazir
ר"א אומר סותר את הכל – he doesn’t lose all of the days as is stated, but loses all of the sacrifices, and Rabbi Eliezer, according to his reasoning, who stated that the Nazirite is not permitted to drink wine [at this point], but rather, after all of the deeds [together], after the bringing of all of the sacrifices. And when he became defiled prior to bringing all of them, it is as if he became defiled in the morning prior to offering in the name of any of them, and it is that this sacrifice that he offered is as if he had brought them while being filled.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Nazir
Introduction
This mishnah deals with a situation where a nazirite began to have his sacrifices offered and then during the process, he became impure through contact with a dead body. The question is, when he becomes clean, does he have to bring again the sacrifice(s) which was already offered.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Nazir
וחכמים אומרים יביא שאר קרבנותיו ויטהר – an explanation: that when he will become [ritually] pure, and that sacrifice which he brought in purity, he should not go back and bring it. Our Rabbis, according to their reasoning who stated that after the single action, it is permitted to drink wine and it is permitted to shave/cut his hair. Therefore, prior to his becoming defiled, it was appropriate to shave/cut his hair and not lose that sacrifice, but the other sacrifices that he offered, from when he became defiled certainly he loses, for the Biblical verse is strict that all of the Nazirite sacrifices should be offered in [ritual] purity.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Nazir
If [a nazirite] on whose behalf one kind of blood has been sprinkled becomes unclean, Rabbi Eliezer says: everything is annulled. But the Sages say: he should bring his remaining sacrifices after purification. They said to him: it happened that Miriam the Tadmorite had one kind of blood sprinkled on her behalf, and they came and told her that her daughter was dangerously ill. She went and found her dead and the sages told her to offer her remaining sacrifices after purification. The topic of this mishnah is a nazirite who became impure after one of her sacrifices had been slaughtered and its blood sprinkled on the altar, but before the other sacrifices had undergone this process. According to Rabbi Eliezer, her becoming impure annuls all of her sacrifices, even the one whose blood had already been spilled. Therefore, she must wait seven days to become pure and then bring a new set of sacrifices. In contrast, the sages hold that the sacrifice whose blood had already been sprinkled counts and that after becoming pure, she need bring only the sacrifices that had not yet been offered. The sages prove their point by bringing a story of where this actually happened. As a side note, it is interesting that the two stories of nazirites which we have encountered, the story regarding Queen Helena and this one, involve women. While it may be imprudent to make any conclusions from such scanty evidence, perhaps taking nazirite vows was a form of religious expression common, at least relatively speaking, among women.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Nazir
מרים התרמודית – She was from Tarmod, and the Halakha is according to the Sages.
